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It was a brazen attack the city of Mumbai had never witnessed the likes of. On the evening of November 26, young gunmen opened indiscriminate fire on crowds in various places including a fancy café, a hospital, the train station, a Jewish centre and two luxury hotels. (0) comments
After a party at a prominent night club in downtown Boston, a Harvard Business School student was brought to a local hospital where she discovered a high amount of gamma-Hydroxybutyric acid in her blood. Commonly referred to as GHB, the substance is a known date rape drug. (3) comments
What kind of year was 2008 and what does it tell us about the world we currently live in? Along with 9/11, 2008 will be remembered as the year that defined this decade. Hence, understanding the events, and more importantly, the themes that have shaped this year for the Harvard Business School community can be both instructional and illuminating activity. (0) comments
To celebrate the New Year in Italy, it is tradition to throw old things out of one's window. This is practiced perhaps more literally than foreigners might suspect - it behooves passersby to heed falling objects. We in the United States could do worse than to adopt this strategy, at least in the figurative sense. (0) comments
As 2008 comes to a close, it seems like an appropriate time to reflect on some of the controversy the Harbus has chronicled in the first half of this academic year. From the Japan trek fiasco to Ahead of the Curve, these pages have brought some less-than-palatable topics to light over the past several months. (0) comments
HBS celebrates its Centennial while simultaneously refining the concept of an "MBA" This year, HBS celebrated its 100th anniversary The festivities officially started on April 8th, 2008, 100 years to the day the Harvard Corporation voted to establish a business school on the patch of swampy land across the Charles River from Harvard University. (0) comments
By many accounts, the economic crisis has been the defining story of the year, but for many students who are still looking for full-time and summer offers, the question still remains, "What does all of this mean for me?" The National Bureau of Economic Research reported on December 1, 2008 that the US economy had sunk into a recession - actually a year ago, in December 2007. (0) comments
As Harvard MBAs, with President Bush leaving office in just under two months, this may be a time to turn more introspective - what (if anything) would you have done differently? At Harvard Business School, "we educate leaders who make a difference in the world. (0) comments
